“Cancel culture is made up, you guys. Now let me continue to insist that there are some commenters you should ignore forever because of my interpretation of things they’ve said in the past. Have I mentioned lately that cancel culture isn’t real? Because it totally isn’t. PS, cancel this commenter I don’t like.…

That’s one definition of “Cancel Culture”, one that’s been co-opted by white people.

What jobs has Kemper lost over this? The fact that there’s been plenty of pushback against this non-story should demonstrate how little cancel culture actually exists.

Does Gina Carano still have an acting career?  I mean, someone somewhere will presumably hire her to make some kind of shitty Kevin Sorbo movie or something, but she’s presumably been deemed unemployable by Disney (who are kind of a big deal these days) and the stink of the scanadal will likely make most movie studios…

Did anyone suggest that she should be denied acting roles?

But then there are sites like this or social media mobs going after people, something with very valid reasons and sometimes on very flimsy pretenses

Thank you for being so clear and concise and correct. All the C's!

• The left creates a term to discuss a real issue.

“it’s mainly a problem because people get very defensive, and then paint themselves as the victim instead of taking any accountability for the actual victims they harmed.”  Except that -- as in the very case under discussion (Kemper) -- the notion that there even was any harm is self-serving bullshit.

“But no one is steering the ship so it goes in some nasty directions some times.”

Pretty much this. There’s no filter. It’s just casting a wide net and if some benign dirt from 20 years ago gets scooped up for the sake of a juicy story and industry representatives on social media take notice, what’s a few casualties in service of rooting out and exposing real and current threats to acceptable…

I’m not one to watch Fox News or read Breitbart, so the version of “cancel culture” that looms largest in my orbit is the kind of cancel culture that the Harper’s Letter was talking about; namely people being driven out or marginalized by liberal institutions like Universities or Newspapers for holding heterodox…

I could not agree more. I don’t even know why I come to this site anymore. Habit I suppose.

The way I see it... The right wing echo chamber has created a myth about “cancel culture” being some organized conspiracy all the liberal elites in the media and universities are engaged in. That’s what I think of when I hear “cancel culture doesn’t exist.” Because there’s no “conspiracy”, it’s a social trend.

That is kind of the thing about these “cancel culture doesn’t exist” things... usually when people say that what they actually seem to mean is either “cancel culture does exist but it’s good actually” or “cancel culture should exist but it isn’t as effective as I want it to be.”  I think a lot of them are kind of…

It matters to me. It ain’t the site it used to be. It’s become a social justice lifestyle blog, not an entertainment site. Bring back Nathan Rabin, in all his perverted glory.

So, yeah, ultimately CaNcEl CuLtUrE isn’t the big scary boogeyman it’s made out to be because enough people are perfectly rational and can figure out if someone did something that deserves consequences.

Agree.  I’m L&O Original Recipe all the way.  I tried SVU for a couple of years but it was just too much.  Just give me the law and the order, thanks.  I also enjoyed the briefly run Trial By Jury, but that was due to my in-my-head love affair with Kirk Acevedo, mainly.

It’s your usual slip of common sense.

“Relatively small bear” is a mama bear with her cubs, and is relatively large enough to seriously fuck up a human.